Dehumanization Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old dehumanization quotes, dehumanization sayings, and dehumanization proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

Laura Hillenbrand

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When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

James Carville

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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Fulton J. Sheen

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Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the ones that we've helped to eliminate - I'm not sure we'll really be on the way to overcoming the problem of dehumanization.

Judith Butler

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Work ends up dehumanizing people.

Pope Francis

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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Audre Lorde

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Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed.

Paulo Freire

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We have to remember that disagreeing with people is fine; it is dehumanizing people that is not, and when that happens, we have to be ready to speak up.

Pramila Jayapal

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War dehumanizes everyone.

Amanda Lindhout

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It's interesting to see the more femme that you present yourself, the more people sort of dehumanize you.

Justin Tranter

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Whenever you tell a group of people that they can't use bathrooms, or they can't access spaces that other people use, that is dehumanizing. It is discriminatory, and it reinforces the stigma and the prejudices that the transgender community already faces.

Sarah McBride

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Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

Saul Bellow

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Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.

John Dickerson

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You don't begin by dehumanizing those who are dehumanizing you, because it contributes to the cycle of dehumanization in the world.

Cornel West

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